Crash Dump Analysis

A pointer “tends to corrupt, and” a direct pointer “corrupts” directly.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Lord Acton’s dictum

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I’m pleased to announce that OpenTask has submitted the book Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov for printing and here is the link to TOC:

Table of Contents

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Got this book yesterday in the post and started reading. Table of contents is amazing for its practical depth and breadth. If you want me to provide a review in a language of concurrency  (I’m reading many books in parallel) I would simply say one word:

Priority!

It simply means priority reading for any Windows software developer and maintainer. Invaluable for any engineer debugging complex software problems and analyzing Windows crash dumps. Simply because Microsoft OS and CLR developers use all this concurrent stuff and best practices described in the book so it is vital to be able recognize them in memory dumps. After reading this book you also get priority boost in your understanding of process and thread dynamics and your ability to plan, architect, design and implement concurrent applications and services.

Concurrent Programming on Windows (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

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The perfect binary Christmas gift for your family and friends is soon available on Amazon, B&N and in local bookshops around the world! In the mean time you can view the product information and even order it:

Baby Turing

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[Software] Defects “have a character of their own, but they also partake of” a program “character;” programs “have a character of” their “own, but” they “also partake of the world’s character.”

Oliver Wolf Sacks, Awakenings

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Finally, previously announced book Baby Turing was released to manufacture. It is co-authored with my daughter and dedicated to my son. The short book annotation:

The genius of Albert Einstein was revolutionary in understanding reality of hardware (semantics of nature) but the genius of Alan Turing was revolutionary in understanding virtuality of software (syntax of computation). This book fills the gap in children’s literature and introduces binary arithmetic to babies.

The front cover:

The back cover:

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Another variation of the previous bugtation No.40:

“Read” code “at whim!”

Randall Jarrell, A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables

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“An excellent precept for” programmers: “have a clear idea of all the” functions “and expressions you need, and you will find them.”

Ximénès Doudan, Pensées et fragments suivis des révolutions du goût

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“The art of not” coding “is extremely important. It consists in our not taking up whatever happens to be occupying the” management “public at the time.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: On Reading and Books

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“A” code “never — well, hardly ever — shakes off its” legacy “and its formation. In spite of all changes in and extensions of and additions to its” base “, and indeed rather pervading and governing these, there will still persist the old” code.

John Langshaw Austin, Philosophical Papers: A Plea For Excuses

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